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Former “Two and a Half Men” star Charlie Sheen thinks Angus T. Jones is undergoing an “emotional tsunami” and believes the show’s creator Chuck Lorre is to blame.

Sheen, who was fired from “Two and a Half Men” in 2011 after eight years on the show, spoke with TMZ about Jones’ now-infamous interview with the Alabama-based church Forerunner Chronicles, in which he called the CBS sitcom “filth” and urged viewers to stop watching.

“Obviously, not having been there for some time, the Angus T. Jones that I knew and still love is not the same guy I saw on YouTube yesterday,” Sheen told TMZ. Sheen played Charlie Harper, the uncle of Jones’ character, Jake. “I dare anyone to spend ten years in the laugh-track that is Chuck Lorre’s hive of oppression and not suffer some form of an emotional tsunami.”

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After the deaths of 60,000 people in Mexico’s war on drugs, a presidential election rife with accusations of fraud, abject poverty and a serious economic disparity, now a deputy with the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, is finally rolling up his sleeves and attacking one of the country’s most serious problems, which no one else dares to address: chewing gum.

According to the Mexican newspaper, El Universal, PRI deputy, Juan Manuel Diez Francos, has finally moved forward and proposed a federal tax of 50 percent on chewing gum, or chicle as it is known in Mexico. He says the chewing gum tax would help pay for the cleaning of chewing gum that people spit out in public places like sidewalks, plazas and parks. As it stands now, he says, the government spends an average of 2 pesos and 50 cents on every piece of gum it un-sticks from these public areas. The cheapest pack of chicle costs only 50 cents.

It might sound like a trivial issue, but Mexican’s love their gum. It is the second largest consumer of gum after the U.S. according to Kraft Foods. There are 92 thousand tons of chicle produced each year in Mexico, and on average Mexicans consume 2.5 pieces of gum per day. The average cleanup in Mexico City is 70 chicles per square meter. And in a single day, the cost of cleanup of the Zocalo amounts to approximately 2,800 pesos according to Diez Francos.

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A Brazilian girl was placed with a foster family when it was discovered her mother raised her as a boy for two years before an aunt discovered the truth, a Brazilian news program has reported.

The mother named her female baby Samuel and managed to erase the “female” check box on her birth certificate at the hospital, then checking the “male” box, R7 Noticias said. After the baby was discharged, the mother registered “Samuel” as a boy at a municipal office in the central Brazilian city of Senador Canedo.

For two years the mother dressed her daughter in boy’s clothes and cut her hair short, convincing family members, including the child’s father, that the girl was a boy. A suspicious aunt uncovered the ruse when she peeked in the child’s diaper, the station said.

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Despite the fact that Verizon’s version of the Samsung Galaxy Note II — complete with its ugly logo-laden home button — is already starting to ship out to pre-orderers, the carrier and manufacturer continued to keep quiet about their official launch plans. We’ve finally received word from a Samsung spokesperson that the 5.5-inch smartphone-tablet hybrid is destined to make its way into Big Red stores beginning tomorrow for $300 with a two-year contract. If you’ve been exercising a heap of patience in waiting for this gigantophone, you’d best free up some time on your calendar first thing tomorrow. We have the official statement waiting for you after the break.

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